County craftsmen display works in Lancaster

The Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmenís Fine Craft Fair will feature approximately 150 master artisans representing a wide variety of fine crafts including jewelry, quilts, basketry, pottery, clothing, sculpture, wood turning and more. Each artisan specializes in work that is functional, aesthetic or both.

The Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen’s Fine Craft Fair, which is being held now through Sunday at the Lancaster Convention Center in downtown Lancaster, brings together a diverse selection of artisans whose craftwork will be on display and for sale over the next three days.

The fair will feature approximately 150 master artisans representing a wide variety of fine crafts including jewelry, quilts, basketry, pottery, clothing, sculpture, wood turning and more. Each artisan specializes in work that is functional, aesthetic or both. There will be thousands of works on display — all of which were created one at a time.

The fair also features the “Best in Pennsylvania Crafts Gallery”, which is a themed exhibition for juried members of the Guild. The theme for 2012 is “A Thing or Two.”

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Themes are open to the artist’s interpretation.

The Guild considers this annual event its hometown “event” because it recently opened a permanent sales/exhibition space in downtown Lancaster. The Center of American Craft at 335 N. Queen Street includes a craft store, an exhibition gallery and craft workshop studios.